Privacy and cookies

This notice explains what personal information we collect when you use this website, why, and your rights. We are the controller of your information under UK data protection law (the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018).

Who we are

This website is run by Golden Mean Gauge Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales (company number 05631840). Our registered office is West Walk Building, 110 Regent Road, Leicester, England, LE1 7LT. You can email us at goldenmeangauge@gmail.com.

What we collect and why

• Orders. Your name, postal address, email, phone number and order details, so we can take payment, send your order and keep the records the law requires. The legal basis is our contract with you and our legal obligations.
• Your account. If you create an account, your login details and order history, so you can see past orders. Basis: our contract with you.
• Messages. What you send through the contact form or by email, so we can reply. Basis: our legitimate interest in answering you.
• Comments. Your name, email and comment, if you comment on an article. Basis: our legitimate interest in running the site.
• Security. Your IP address and browser details, to protect the site and forms from spam and abuse. Basis: our legitimate interest in keeping the site secure.

We do not sell your information and we do not use it for advertising.

Who we share it with

Only with services that help us run the shop, under contract and only for that purpose:

• Our website host: Swift Internet.
• Our payment provider: PayPal, who processes your card payment. We never see or store your full card details.
• Royal Mail and the postal services that deliver your order.
• Google, for reCAPTCHA spam protection on the contact form, and for our email.
• Akismet (Automatic), if it is switched on to filter comment spam.

Some of these services are outside the UK, including in the United States. Where that happens, the transfer is covered by UK adequacy regulations, such as the UK–US data bridge, or by the standard contract clauses approved for the UK. Orders are packed and posted from Israel, which the UK recognizes as protecting personal data adequately.

How long we keep it

Order and payment records are kept for six years after the end of the financial year, as UK tax law requires. Messages and comments are kept for as long as they are useful, and no longer than three years. Accounts are kept until you ask us to close them.

Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your information, ask us to correct or delete it, object to our using it, or ask us to restrict how we use it. Email goldenmeangauge@gmail.com and we will reply within one month.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, please tell us. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office at ico.org.uk.

Cookies

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. This site uses only the cookies it needs to work. If optional cookies are ever added, we will ask first. You can change your choice at any time with the cookie button at the bottom of the page.

The accessibility panel remembers your reading settings in your own browser only. Nothing is sent to us.

Last updated: 5 November 2026.